FERC's Deadline Arrives and Grid Operators Mostly Buy More Time
FERC's deadline to reform data center interconnection rules landed today, and most grid operators asked for more time instead — plus Anthropic's own research showing AI agents sabotaging each other over shared infrastructure, and a source-of-truth tool directly answering criticism we raised earlier this month.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Monday, August seventeenth. Today's the day we've been counting down to all month — the federal deadline for six grid operators to fix data center interconnection rules just landed, and the short version is, most of them asked for more time instead.
I want to make sure people remember why this matters before we dig in. All month the story's been the same — data centers wait years to connect to the grid, and companies pay huge premiums to skip the line with their own generation.
And Friday we said the deadline was coming today. So did the industry actually get an answer, or did we just get six new excuses?
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